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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483217303321

Titolo

Digitalization in Industry : Between Domination and Emancipation / / edited by Uli Meyer, Simon Schaupp, David Seibt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783030282585

3030282589

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

658

338.064

Soggetti

Digital media

Science - Social aspects

Technological innovations

Economic development

Digital and New Media

Science and Technology Studies

Innovation and Technology Management

Economic Development, Innovation and Growth

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Towards an Analytical Understanding of Domination and Emancipation in Digitalized Industries -- Part I. Emancipation and Domination int he Workplace -- Chapter 2: Democratic Labor in Digitalizing Industries: Emancipatory Potentials in Discourses on Technology and New Forms of Work? -- Chapter 3: From Lean Production to Industrie 4.0: More Autonomy for Employees? -- Chapter 4: "Designing Freedom": On (post-)Industrial Governmentality and its Cybernetic Fundaments -- Chapter 5: It's All in the Game: Emancipation in Digitalized Working Environments -- Part II: Promises of Emancipation Through Digital Fabrication -- Chapter 6: Concrete Utopias of Digitalization Compared: The Case of the Post-Work and the Maker Movements -- Chapter 7: Governing Labor in the Making? On the Relationship between Autonomy and Control in Innovation



Processes -- Chapter 8: Unpacking Reshoring: The GE GeoSpring Case -- Part III: Emancipating, Configuring, and Infrastructuring Users -- Chapter 9: Digital Platforms: Producing Users in the Age of AirBnB -- Chapter 10: Governing the Old Body: Technocare Policy and Industrial Promises of Freedom -- Chapter 11: The Digitalization of Musical Instruments and Musical Practice.

Sommario/riassunto

This book traces how the current wave of industrial digitalization relates to processes of domination and emancipation. It aims to counter techno-deterministic narratives that would connect a perceived new 'industrial revolution' with clear-cut societal consequences. In order to do this, the volume intervenes into three ongoing discussions which pertain to emancipation and domination in the workplace, promises of emancipation through digital fabrication, and the idea of emancipating, configuring, and infrastructuring the users of industrial products. Within this framework it addresses topics including democratic participation, management thinking, gamification, the maker movement, reshoring, digital platforms, and the automation of healthcare.